No problem mate..

Wow.. you joined the Forum in 2008, this is your SECOND POST EVER.. and of course you happened to visit the VERY SAME vegan festival..
and (surprisingly ) you also happen to use imagebam as photo hosting platform, like the previous poster.. very interesting indeed..
P.S. I would have bet my balls that this thread would become ultra-popular here..

@Feetosopher: As I read your post I just laught. Yes, it looks that we are the same person. But believe me or not, I visit this forum for many years and this was the reason I had to post my pics, because I attended the same festival (I think its the biggest one in Europe) and must confirm that there were many barefooters. :-) For image hosting I wanted to use Tumblr as you or someone else recommended, but I didn´t want to register there. Imagebam was just an easy way how to upload them as I looked into previous photos..

fascinating indeed..

Well, to stay on topic..
THIS is the kind of DIRTY-SOLED VEGAN FESTIVAL BEAUTIES I am into, sir..

I would not really call them "firends", but I have been lucky to have had the oppertunity to talk so some women and/or Girls that barefoot through winter.

I dont think any of them felt any pleassure in the pain, actually the opposite - they all admited that barefooting through the winter is difficult, unpleasent and even painful. They all would say that you can get used to low - even freezing - tempertures, but that it will be extremly unpleasent once there is snow, especially for long periods of time outside.


For the young girls I believe that they mainly wanted to be very different from the mainstream. Both actually had some trouble resulting from their barefooting, one had problems with her parents (that was even the reason why she moved out once she turned 18) but was supported by her school, the other girl had a huge conflict with school and School authorities but stayed barefoot anyways and was supported by her parents. In the end, both of them managed to stay barefoot throughout the winter despite this problems. Both took some care of not getting frostbite but could manage to get through the year with only 3 or 4 days of wearing shoes. Still, both admitted that at times, barefooting through the cold winter days is uncomfortable but that there is nothing that can be done about that for they are barefooters.

The older woman is very strict in her barefooting, she would never ever put on shoes. She says it is extemly painful for her on the extreme snow days, but that it is still less painful for her tham putting on shoes. She says she is barefoot "no matter what" because she is a barefooter, she wants to be barefoot for ever and that part of beeing a true barefooter is to also suffer some bad consequences, which are still the better Option than beeing forced into shoes. She would not pay any Attention to the weahter or the danger of frostbite, but still told me that sometimes is was so painful that she wished not to be a barefooter - but as she is a barefooter, there is no way around some painful and uncomfortable moments. She suffers frostbite from time to time and had some bad frostbite 2 or 3 times (a few years ago when we met up). She told me, that sometimes she is really afraid when she listens to the weather forcast in the evening and they talk about deep frost and snow the next day and she knows that she will have to spent a time on that day, and that her feet are just extremly painful on some days - but as she cannot put on any shoes as a true barefooter, she will manage to suffer through it.

I am barefoot also all winter, but not 100% of my time, and I somewhat admire how strict she is in her barefooting, even not owing shoes for about 15 year by now.

I also visited this Festival once :-)
No Fotos though, went there for Food actually, not so much for taking pics :-)

The Aurillac festival seems incredible. It’s a music and street art festival, near Auvignon, in July, and, from what I saw on youtube, on Rikedenimes page, it’s full of barefoot hippie girls, with black soles everywhere....

Here I am with another report. Yes, you´re right, there has been the first sighting of 2019!

Today in the afternoon when I was going home from the office, I saw a group of three people walking towards me. And I was lucky! Given the fact that the street was rather crowded I could have easily missed them. Well, I did not!

In my opinion, they were a mother (in her mid forties), her twenty-something daughter and a guy who must have been the daughter´s boyfriend. Barefooted was the girl.

Wow. She was quite tall and slim with wavy brown hair reaching her shoulders. She was carrying brown cardigan folded over one arm and a huge black backpack. She´had on only a plain red T-shirt and a pair of baggy dark blue corduroy trousers, rolled up to expose her ankles. As for feet, they were quite big and wide, no varnish. What really struck me was her abilty not to give a damn that she didn´t have any shoes on. It was simply amazing how fast she was able to walk! And she must have been walking a lot as her soles were black!

Why was she barefoot? My theory is that she had problems with her boots. She was carrying them tied to the backpack and they looked brand new.

And yes, the weather. It was sunny but still rather cold. I checked a wall on the sunny side of the street and it was lukewarm, walls in the shade were still freezing though. I guess that the same could have been said about the cobblestones as well.

And you guys?

You are a lucky guy, @bfwatcher!
Where did you record the sighting? (if you cannot disclose the city, please disclose at least the country.. )
As for me.. well, it's tough for me to spot any barefooting beauties if I have to stay at home doing exercises to get my left arm fully operational,
in view of the 2019 shooting season..

Well, a tricky question, isn´t it? Let me put it this way: I´m from one of the Slavic countries. Sadly, not from Russia because if I were, I would have made friends with Paul and ran his PR department, participating in all his sessions and then writing reports on what was going on during each scene.

As for your arm and sightings, you don´t have to be that concerned. AMELIE has already agreed to walk barefoot again and that will sure make up for a somewhat later beginning of the season, won´t it?

My first real sighting for 2019 war on the 26th of Febuary. it was a young (around 18-20 years old) hippie-punk girl who was walking without shoes on a very sunny day down a tourist road. She had really dirty soles and dark-red polished toes. I stopped her and chatted to her for about 5min, she told me that she hiked almost entirely through Holland in 2018 with some friends, and that she also walked a large part of it barefooted. Wow!

I also spotted a dreadlocked barefoot woman in front of a hostel already on the 13th of Febuary (sitting in the sun) but unfortunately I couldn't get a good look and also couldn't chat with her.

-Hal-

Your city will never cease to amaze me as far as chances to spot barefooting women in the most extreme / weirdest situations are concerned, mate..

OK, OK.. I'll ask no further questions.. "Slavic countries" is a large enough area to prevent any guess from my side..
Well, given Pavel's not so great passion for public relations.. I would suggest you to apply for such a job.. maybe Pavel can find the idea brilliant.. and you will get a job that many dudes here can only dream about..

P.S. yeah, a session with AMELIE will surely blow away the past upsetting weeks.. and SWAINS has just told me that she has GREAT SURPRISES
for all the people who are interested in BAREFOOT URBAN GIRLS..

Wow! German girls are amazing! Have you ever tried to find out how come that so many of them embrace barefoot lifestyle with such ease? Clearly, it´s something unheard of in other parts of the world.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your two wonderful experiences with us!

Hope these surprises will include also a couple of barefoot chores. You know the stuff we talked about a year ago: washing a car, washing the front steps, watering plants, etc. If SWAINS felt like that, it would be a nice addition to our favourite "barefoot lifestyle" series.